Brimeura

Brimeura is a small bulbous genus in the Hyacinthaceae family formerly regarded as Hyacinthus and related to Scilla.

It comprises Brimeura fastigiata, Brimeura amethystina and the newly identified (1992) and apparently endangered Brimeura duvigneaudii from Majorca.

Brimeura are readily-grown, quietly attractive, dwarf, bulbous plant with white to pale blue or even pink flowers. Their wild range runs from from Spain and S.France to parts of former Yugoslavia, Corsica and Sardinia.

Brimeura amethystina and its cultivated forms are dwarf plants with grassy foliage, well suited to growth in the garden in a very well-drained spot in full sun or light shade in a loam soil with plenty of organic matter present. The other species are perhaps better treated as more classically Mediterranean bulbs with a dry summer rest.

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